Monday, July 7, 2014

Ohio's Pro-Fracking Governor Ignores Fracking Earthquakes

Ohio is being hit by earthquakes in areas where gas fracking operations are underway, but Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) is best buddies with big polluters, so you end up with stories like this:

State regulators ordered a gas drilling company to halt operations in an area of northeastern Ohio after three minor earthquakes were felt in the area.
No property damage had been reported from the earthquakes that happened Monday morning just west of Youngstown.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says there's nothing indicating that the earthquakes are connected to any injection wells.

But Kasich has state employees spending taxpayer dollars on doing public relations for gas fracking, so state regulators have to do the bizarre dance of shutting down fracking wells while not saying the wells are causing the earthquakes. Then why shut them down at all?